IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems, V1.1 is designed to provide an end-to-end deep learning platform for data scientists. It offers many optimizations that can help ease installation and management, and can help accelerate performance:

IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems, V1.1 provides robust end-to-end workflow support for deep learning application logic. This includes the complete lifecycle management from installation and configuration, data ingest and preparation, building, optimizing, and training the model, to inference, testing, and moving the model into production. Taking advantage of a distributed architecture, IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems enables your teams to quickly iterate through the training cycle on more data to continuously improve the model over time.

IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems, V1.1 is a single product offering that is the combination of IBM Spectrum Conductor plus the IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact add-on module. This single offering enables the IBM® Power Systems server architecture as part of a complete IBM end-to-end solution for deep learning. IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems offers a highly available and resilient multitenant distributed framework, providing Apache Spark and deep learning application lifecycle support, centralized management and monitoring, end-to-end security, and support from IBM.

It is supported with IBM Power Systems servers with NVLink CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs and requires IBM PowerAI as a prerequisite for Power Systems deployments. PowerAI makes deep learning, machine learning, and AI more accessible, improving performance. By combining this software platform for deep learning with IBM Power Systems, enterprises can rapidly deploy a fully optimized and supported platform for machine learning with elevated performance.

Most of a data scientist's time is spent importing, transforming, and preparing data for training. IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems is designed to reduce that time with a rich toolset, automation, and workflow, enabling the data scientist to spend more time training and optimizing their models. A distributed Spark implementation can reduce the amount of compute time needed to import and execute transformations by running multiple parallel import and transformation tasks simultaneously.

Automation to help with optimization and training

There is a scarcity of skills for model optimization. Even when the skills are present, the many possible optimizations can make choosing the best optimization a daunting task. IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems provides the following optimizations:

Hyper-parameter search and optimization that uses multiple iterations and parallel processes that run on a distributed Spark architecture help you to find a better model and hyper-parameters for improved accuracy.

Training visualization and run time monitoring provides visualization of the training accuracy
while in midprocess. This offers data scientists the capability to interact with the model and judge
accuracy during execution. If for example, the accuracy levels are clearly low after a short period
of execution time, the modeling can be stopped, adjusted, and then restarted. This saves a
tremendous amount of wasted time, where users are stuck waiting for models to completely finish,
before having any insight into their accuracy and usability.

Dramatically reduce training times

Model optimization and training is compute heavy and very iterative. IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems can dramatically reduce the time needed to train models, enabling you to go into production faster or train using larger data sets with the following features:

Software and frameworks that are optimized to take full advantage of IBM Power Systems servers with NVLink CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. Benchmarks have seen 50x improvements, cutting training times down from days to hours.

Distributed training enables jobs to be broken down and distributed over a cluster of servers
so they can be processed in parallel.

Elastic resource management makes it possible for compute resources to be automatically added
to a training job as the demand increases and then removed as the workload slows.

Deploy, infer, score, capture organizational value, and reiterate

After training is completed, IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems provides tools to help package and deploy models for testing and then into production. The models can run in the distributed Spark environment in parallel with other deep learning projects or can be deployed as an API or into any target device. To ensure the model remains up to date and gets smarter as additional data is collected, additional iterations are taken through the deep learning workflow supported by IBM Spectrum Deep Learning Impact for Power Systems. The more times you iterate, the more times you capture new data, the more powerful your model becomes. Faster iterations mean higher-fidelity, higher-quality models.

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Now integrated into the base operating system of AIX® V5.3, AIX V6.1, and AIX V7.1, Electronic Service Agent is designed to automatically and electronically report system failures and utilization issues to IBM, which can result in faster problem resolution and increased availability. System configuration and inventory information collected by the Electronic Service Agent tool also can be viewed on the secure Electronic Support web portal, and used to improve problem determination and resolution by you and the IBM support team. To access the tool main menu, simply type smitty esa_main, and select Configure Electronic Service Agent. In addition, ESA now includes a powerful web user interface, giving the administrator easy access to status, tool settings, problem information, and filters. For more information and documentation on how to configure and use Electronic Service Agent, go to the IBM Electronic Support website.

The IBM Electronic Support portal is a single internet entry point that replaces the multiple entry points traditionally used to access IBM internet services and support. This portal enables you to gain easier access to IBM resources for assistance in resolving technical problems. The My Systems and Premium Search functions make it even easier for organizations that are Electronic Service Agent tool-enabled to track system inventory and find pertinent fixes.

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Increased uptime: The Electronic Service Agent tool is designed to enhance the Warranty or Maintenance Agreement by providing faster hardware error reporting and uploading system information to IBM Support. This can translate to less wasted time monitoring the symptoms, diagnosing the error, and manually calling IBM Support to open a problem record. Its 24 x 7 monitoring and reporting mean human intervention is not required to report errors.

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More accurate reporting: Because system information and error logs are automatically uploaded to the IBM Support Center in conjunction with the service request, you are not required to find and send system information, decreasing the risk of misreported or misdiagnosed errors. Once inside IBM, problem error data is run through a data knowledge management system and knowledge articles are appended to the problem record.

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